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<p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 16pt; color: Blue"><b>IEEE 802.11 &#8211; Wi-Fi<sup>&#174;</sup></b></span></p>

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</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 13pt">Overview</span></b></p>

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<td bordercolor="#808080" valign="top" width="773"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt; color: Black">Microchip has added 802.11 wireless communications to its lineup of wireless technologies for the embedded market. Microchip has a Wi-Fi PICtail development board that adds 802.11 capabilities to Microchip&#8217;s development platforms for the PIC18, PIC24, PIC32, and dsPIC family of microcontrollers. The PICtail development board contains the MRF24WB0MA FCC and Wi-Fi certified module.<br />

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The Wi</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10pt; color: Black">&#8208;</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt; color: Black">Fi PICtail allows designers to quickly create a direct connection to the Internet by seamlessly connecting to standard 802.11b/g access points. In managing the connection, the MRF24WB0MA module controls the MAC and baseband layers and is connected to the host MCU via an SPI port. The 8/16 or 32-bit Microchip MCU that resides on the microchip development board controls the TCP/IP networking stack and runs the system application.</span><br />
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<td bordercolor="#808080" valign="top" width="447"><p><b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt">Wi-Fi Modules</span>
</b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt"><br />FCC and ETSI certified Wi-Fi modules</span></p>

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<a href="http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en548014" target="_top"><u>MRF24WB0MA</u></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue">built-in PCB antenna</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en548015" target="_top"><u>MRF24WB0MB</u></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue">supports external antennas</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en547511" target="_top">ZG2100M</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue"> </span></b></u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 9pt; color: Blue"><i>(Please consider MRF24WB0MA for new designs)</i></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en547512" target="_top"><b>ZG2101M</b></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue"> </span></u><i><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 9pt; color: Blue">(Please consider MRF24WB0MB for new designs)</span></i></p>

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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 11pt; color: Black"><b><u>Features:</u></b></span></p>
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<li> Compatible with PIC18, PIC24, PIC32 and dsPIC microcontrollers</li>
<li> IEEE 802.11b compliant wireless solution compatible with b/g/n routers</li>
<li> Supports infrastructure and Adhoc networks</li>
<li> MRF24WB0MA small footprint module integrated antenna, MAC, Baseband, RF and power amplifier</li>
<li> MRF24WB0MA/B module is FCC, IC, Wi-Fi certified, and ROHS, CE and ETSI compliant, providing considerable cost savings and quick time-to-market</li>
<li> License Free TCP/IP stack supporting standard suite of Internet Protocols</li>
<li> Built-in EZConfig application to facilitate network provisioning without a keyboard or display</li>
<li> Built-in ZeroConf (Bonjour, Avahi) application to simplify human interaction</li>
<li> Supports WEP, WPA, and WPA2 security protocols on module</li>
<li> Solutions as simple as a single PIC plus WiFi module with power and passives.</li></ul></div>
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<td bordercolor="#808080" valign="top" width="773"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt">TCPIP stack which supports Wi-Fi can be downloaded from<b> </b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt; color: Blue"><!-- TRANSIT - HYPERLINK --><!-- .http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2680&dDocName=en547784. --><a href="http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&amp;nodeId=2680&amp;dDocName=en547784" target="_top"><u>Microchip Applications Library</u></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt">. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt">The stack includes example applications such as Wi-Fi demos with EZConfig and ZeroConf functions. You can also find pre-compiled hex files in the WiFi folders for all supported development tools. </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 13pt"><b>802.11 Development Tools</b></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt; color: Black">MRF24WB0MA WiFi Pictail / Pictail Plus provides 802.11 connectivity using PIC microcontrollers on Microchip&#8217;s development boards. </span></p>
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